Food insecurity remains a daily reality for more than 300 million people across Africa, and the high cost of imported potassium fertiliser is part of the problem. Nearly all of the world's potash is ...

Most people do their rock hunting during the day, but you have to wait until dark to find "Yooperlites." Yooperlites, sodalite-rich syenite rocks that fluoresce in the dark under ultraviolet light, ...

The new "Condor I" discovery is located about 3.5 km west of IAMGOLD Corporation's Fayolle advance exploration project, the Syenite Condor exploration project is centred on the Cléricy pluton, an ...

Erik Rintamaki has been credited with the first verified finding of sodalite-rich syenite rocks in Michigan last year. He found these glowing rocks on a Lake Superior beach near Brimley, MI and ...

Rocks in the Upper Peninsula that glow under a certain light are grabbing the spotlight. "Yooperlites" — or more properly, the rocks classified as syenite — are getting a lot of attention from rock ...

According to Canadian Light Source, conventional potash comes from underground deposits left behind by evaporated ancient seas, with the largest reserves found in Canada, Russia and Germany. This ...